Personal Development
Our personal development offer and personal, social and health education curriculum at Wybers Wood Academy, provides opportunities and learning to help our pupils achieve their ambitions. Our offer opens up a wide range of opportunities, experiences and activities that pupils can take part and achieve in, that will help them to gather opinions about and make informed choices about the world around them.
The first part of the framework contains a wide offer of opportunities, activities and experiences that our pupils can have over their time in our Delta primary academies – The Delta Stars. The opportunities are set out across 16 strands and most build on content from Early Years to Year 6. Academy leaders will select the opportunities that their pupils access over their time in school. They will make sure that all pupils complete at least 6 personal development activities/opportunities each year. For each one, they will be awarded a Delta Star Card. They will be able to put this into their Delta Stars Album.
While we will not direct children to specific activities, we will aim to ensure that children cover a broad range of activities, across all 16 strands, over each key stage.
When a card is awarded, a personalised comment or photograph should be added on the back, as an individualised record of their achievement. This can be completed by an adult or the child, as appropriate.
The PSHE Curriculum
The personal development offer is underpinned by a well-sequenced, precise, age-appropriate curriculum in personal, social and health education. We use the Jigsaw programme as it is well structured, provides plenty of opportunity for pupils to revisit concepts and is regularly updated to be in line with legislation and the national agenda. We have taken the intended knowledge from each unit and set this out as ‘Take Aways’ – in the format of our own REC, so that expected knowledge is well understood by the staff in our academies. It clearly defines prior and subsequent knowledge that is built upon.
The Jigsaw programme sets out detailed lesson content, progression and timings for delivery. To support our pupils to recall the PSHE curriculum content, we have created knowledge organisers to support each unit. These help our pupils to make connections in their learning and talk about this with confidence.
Please click on the links below to take you to our Jigsaw page and examples of our Knowledge Organisers.